SR-71 Takeoff from Okinawa (FULL Afterburner)

This is a video of an SR-71 departing Kadena Airbase Okinawa,it is not a real video however IT IS the real sound,many few of which ever got to hear,if you havent seen a Blackbird takeoff your life is incomplete. This is made from the bottom to the top of my heart in dedication to the maintainence crews,support staff and the pilots all involved with the program God bless you all!

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[BlackbirdSpecOps]

I see you found it again.

[OsanBlackCat5RS]

@BlackbirdSpecOps What do you mean???

[BlackbirdSpecOps]

@OsanBlackCat5RS I thought this was the video you were looking for.

[OsanBlackCat5RS]

@BlackbirdSpecOps Oh,Well it partly is but the footage here isnt real,the soind is original im sure you can tell,I like the entire video with the guys walking the final steps up to their cockpits,and it this just reminded me that in just a few days this will be 20 yrs ago to the date! i think the last Kadena Departure was Jan 7,1991 at 5:30 am JP time?

[BlackbirdSpecOps]

@justforever96 That might be what you've read but I worked on them and that's not what happens.....it's not feasable to maintain full afterburner for long periods of time. It has to do with the ratio of air to fuel intake at high altitudes.

[justforever96]

So if the footage isn't real, what is it then?

[justforever96]

@BlackbirdSpecOps That's not what I read. As far as I know they are always on full burner, except maybe at part throttle, for air to air refueling. As soon as you throttle up, the burners come on, and they stay on for the duration of the mission. You can't maintain those cruise speeds without them, and unless you're doing Mach 2.5, you're leaking fuel...like you said, it's built loosely. Most engines can't do afterburners for more than brief periods, not even counting the fuel supply.

[BlackbirdSpecOps]

@freefall321 It's not oxidized titanium as titanium doesn't oxidize. There is a radar absorbing paint on the aircraft. The aircraft was purposely built loosely so that when it got to altitude it would expand and seal. The extreme temperatures dictated the top speed and materials used for the fuel ballasts.

[BlackbirdSpecOps]

Postie 218, they're not always on full afterburner.....only when they're needed do they turn them on.

[1028dtay]

@BlackbirdSpecOps

urm that's 240p we meet again lol

[SR71U2ube]

WHAO! THIS SOUNDS GREAT ON SOME GOOD SPEAKERS!!!

[SR71U2ube]

@oneonecee I have a similar experience. I got to see the SR-71 for my first and last time at the 1997 Beale Open house.

[oneonecee]

@OsanBlackCat5RS This date is correct, I left Minot N.D. as a high school SR to Okinawa. After I landed at Kadena my mom took me to the observation area for a "surprise", what I didn't realize at the time, I was watching for the first and last time in my life the awesome power of the SR-71.

[tvgray1]

I was stationed at Kadena in77 and watched touck n gos by the blackbird= I took pictures but they were taken out of my hold baggage when I went back to the world-400 MMS rocks!!

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